At present, the shift of buyers from traditional markets to modern markets cannot be denied. The current stigma of traditional markets, which smells, have to bid, and the products that are sold are not good enough are sometimes still in people’s minds. In fact, the national government in collaboration with local governments has renovated many traditional markets and built new wholesale markets that are more comfortable and orderly to facilitate visitors to traditional markets.
Goods sold in traditional markets are no less competitive than imported products. For example, vegetables. Vegetables that are traded in traditional markets are fresher because they are directly obtained by the seller from the farmers. As for marine products like that, they are directly obtained from the catch of fishermen without going through a complicated preservation process.
The more crowded the traditional market, the more smoothly the economic flow in the community will be, especially because all activities will use the Rupiah currency. Also, many other aspects that will be affected, such as the absorption of labor around traditional markets will increase.
Using domestic products more often than using imported products will help the Rupiah move towards a safe point. Traditional markets are places of sale and purchase in almost all parts of Indonesia. In traditional markets, the goods that are traded are the results of the harvest and production of the local community. Let’s flock to shop at the traditional markets. Let’s get rid of the negative stigma all this time.
–sh
